Overview:

The Russian army was driving on the German capital, as the reign of the Third Reich drew to an end. All through April, it seemed that nothing could stop the advancing Russian juggernaut. Mixed elements of the depleted 9th Division desperately tried to hold the Red Army from reaching the capital of the Fatherland. One such holding action occurred on the morning of the 21st around a farm just a few miles from Berlin. All that morning, the defenders listened to the sound of artillery shells falling behind their position. By 1000 hours, several refugees reported tanks advancing up the main road in their direction. Radio communications were in shambles, so the defenders were on their own. They wouldn’t have to wait long. Several Russian T34’s backed up by two companies of infantry, assaulted this knot of resistance. For the German defenders, it proved to be another long day. In the opening minutes, five of the six lead tanks
were in flames and it looked like the Russian column would be
turned back. But a second column of T34’s appeared on the left
flank, overrunning the German Machinegun position that was giving
covering fire to the farmhouse. Russian assault troops had to root
out the stiff German resistance hiding in the cellars of the main
house, and fighting quickly turned into hand to hand.

Attacker: Russian (Forward and Follow-up elements of the 69th Army Division)

Defender: German (Depleted Elements of the 9th Division)

5.5 turns

Players: 2 OBA: None Night: No

Unit Counts:

Squads: A:23.0 D:13.0

AFVs: A:9

T-34/85 x 6T-34 M43 x 3

D:2

PzKpfw IVJ x 2

Guns: A:0 D:1

7.5cm PaK 40

Victory Conditions:

Exit VP:

Building Control VC:

Area Control VC:

Unit Based VC:

LOS Style VC:

CVP Cap:

Misc Rules:

Cellars w D: AS, FB2

Map Board(s):

4

Overlays:

NONE

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Had a blast playing this one PBEM vs Adam. Because it was PBEM (and thus spread out over a long period of time), I don't recall too much detail and don't really feel like wading through the 50+ logs to recreate it. What I do remember was that Adam had a very forward defense and gave the Russians a bloody nose as they came on board right from the start. His 426 conscripts were showing well and causing much problems for my elite Guard 628 squads. I think the turning point of the game was his Turn 1, where he aggressively brought up his armor to attack part of my armored force who was isolated. While the localized attack was successful (I think it knocked out a couple of my tanks), it left his tanks dangerously exposed and I was able to use my superior AFV numbers to kill both of them in fairly short order. Taking out his PaK 40 gave me complete armor superiority, and, as long as I stayed out of PF range, I could run around and blast German building hexes at will. Used a kill stack of 447+MMG, 447+MMG, 447+HMG, 10-2 to blast away at the fortified building hexes and eventually the Germans had no unbroken units left at which point Adam conceded. A very fun "under the radar" scenario.

2010-12-19

(A) Andy Beaton

vs

German win

A very exciting game, but you can't win against the low German rolls and high Russian rolls I was facing.

2010-12-01

(A) David Ramsey

vs

Martin Barker

Russian win

Tough getting past a tight defence with the brutal wire, but overpowered the Germans at the end